350D

The Canon Rebel Digital XT (North America) / EOS Kiss n Digital (Japan) / EOS 350D (Elsewhere) is the successor of the EOS 300D.

EOS 350D All Color Options

EOS 350D Front

EOS 350D Back

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Technical data

→ Camera specifications: 350D@Canon USA

• Sensor: 8.0 million effective pixels, 22.2 x 14.8 mm CMOS type
• DigiC II image processor
• VxWorks operating system
• Display: 1.8" TFT, 115,000 pixels
• Optical pentamirror viewfinder
• Storage: Compact Flash Type I or II and Microdrive
• Battery: Canon Li-ion Battery NB-2LH
• Dimensions: 27 x 94 x 64 mm, Weight: 490g without battery, lens, and CF
• Speed: Approx 3.0 fps continous shooting up to 14 JPEG / 4 RAW frames

Instructions

By homeshopmachinist [1]

I'm linking to some files he's hosting but you should probably check the dev[2] thread as there are more recent versions, or check this mediafire share if the old links break.

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Make sure battery is FULLY CHARGED. Camera MUST be firmware ver 1.0.3

1. Format your CF card. Copy scanled.fir [3] to the card.

2. Insert CF to camera and run firmware update from the bottom choice of the 5th Menu setup screen. Screen will show "CF card containing firmware is required to update". Wait for blue LED to light steady. Wait another 30 seconds.

3. Turn off camera and take battery out and back in. Leave it off.

4. Insert CF card in card reader. Run Cardtricks and select the CF card by clicking on the picture of a memory card. Format the card in Cardtricks using the format button.

5. Check "CF boot sector" at the bottom right of the Cardtricks screen and then click "make bootable." Cardtricks will tell you to switch on the 'write protect switch'. CF cards do not have this, so don't worry about it.

6. Copy the autoexec.bin in all_in_infov2 [4] into the root directory to the CF card, i.e. X:\autoexec.bin - not into any subdirectory.

7. Insert CF in the camera. If the camera is booting from the card the Blue LED will flash.

Please note that after step 4 above :

When the camera is powered on, it will behave as follows:
- Without a card in: Warning message "No CF card" will be displayed on LCD screen..
- Without a bootable card: No message displayed on LCD screen (default behavior of camera).
- With a bootable card in and a correct AUTOEXEC.BIN file in the root directory of the card, the camera will execute the AUTOEXEC.BIN file, no message displayed on LCD screen..
- With a bootable card in that does not contain an AUTOEXEC.BIN, or contains a bad AUTOEXEC.BIN file, the camera will turn on and show a message on the LCD screen about the lack of an AUTOEXEC.BIN file.

All features are accessed through the info button:

"1:ISO"; ISO-values from 100 to 3200 in 1/3 stops
"2:WB"; white-balance (the original 8 plus ColorTemp)
"3:CTemp"; custom color temp from 1800K to 11000K in 100K steps
"4:Metering"; light metering, the original three (fullframe, center-weighted, partial) plus spot metering
"5:AEB"; exposure bracketing from +-0 to 6.7 EV in +/- x.0, x.3, x.5, x.7, for x = {0..6}
"6:CF-BSeq/AutoC"; bracketing sequence order (normal-under-over / under-normal-over) and autocancellation of bracketing on / off
"7:CF-SI Disp."; red focussing dots overlay on matt screen on / off
"8:CF-Menu Posi."; wether it should remember menu position after poweroff-on (the setting 'Top Menu' is faulty)
"9:CF-Safe.Shift"; Av and Tv autoexpanding the given values - only if needed (if picture would otherwise be over- or underexposed)
"10:CF-L.AFButt"; changes behaviour of AF-pushbutton on Canon L IS supertele (not the AF-switch on normal lens!)
"?11:CF-Decis.Da."; saves plenty of additional numeric decision data and sensor values in RAW and JPEG-EXIF (only for special software)
"12:CF-Flash"; switch flash on / off regardless of flash settings (either internal and flash socket)
"13:Shutt.Count"; total shutter counts

"14:TimeLapse"; only present in the latest versions, check dev thread for details

The menu will appear as usual, ISO, WB and metering settings won't show up in the menu structure, they show up in the small display and on the modified INFO screen only. Some edited values withstand battery removal and booting normally without prepared CF card, so don't be surprised.

Shortcuts:

ISO 3200 - In Idle mode press <UP>(ISO) to call ISO selection menu, then press <*> (confirmed by beep)
Spot Metering - In Idle mode Press <LEFT>(Metering ) to call metering selection menu, then press <*> (beep)
Colour temperature - In Idle mode press <DOWN>(WB) to call white balance selection menu, then press <*> (beep)